On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:19:48PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
> Just `tar -cvvf backup-`date`.tar /`? Is it really that simple?
You don't need to backup the whole /.
I have a file called backuplist:
/etc/
/usr/local/
/root/
/var/local/
/home/
and I have a file called excludelist:
/var/local/backup
/var/local/unbackedup
/home/dtutty/uldl
/root/uldl
These are both in /usr/local/lib/backup, although they should go in
/etc/ but I wanted to avoid any conflicts with any package I may install
that would have /etc/backup/.
For completeness, here's my whole backup script. This is for my main
box titan. Less complex scripts are run on other boxes. Other scrips
do the rsync. Note that my /home is on a cat lvm while my system
(including /var/local where the backups go) is on lvm over raid1.
Doug.
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